William LePre Houston family papers
Contributors: Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4000
Subjects: Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association; Universidad Central (Spain); World War, 1914-1918; Amherst College; United States; Autographs; History; Correspondence; Practice of law; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Black Labor unions; Harvard Law School; United States. Army; African Americans; Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America
Description: Correspondence, diaries, financial records, academic papers, printed material, and other papers chiefly of William LePre Houston, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, and his son and law partner, Charles Hamilton Houston.  Documents William's work as attorney for the Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association and other African American labor organizations, his activism as a Republican, and his position as grandmaster of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America.  Other subjects include Charles's service in the U.S. Army in France during World War I and his education at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., and the Universidad Central (Spain), Madrid, Spain, and Houston family life.  An autograph collection contains signatures of George Washington and Anthony Wayne.  Family correspondents include William LePre Houston's wife, Mary Ethel Hamilton Houston, and Charles Hamilton Houston's first wife, Margaret Gladys Moran Houston.  Other correspondents include W.E.B. Du Bois, William Hastie, Will H. Hays, G. David Houston, Mordecai W. Johnson, Edward H. Morris, Booker T. Washington, and Carter Godwin Woodson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Edward Davidson, 1977.

transferred to Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

William LePre Houston (1870-1953), lawyer, and his son, Charles Hamilton Houston, also a lawyer.

Collection material in English, with French and Spanish.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216